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The Widower—Local News Story

When Bud Caldwell's wife Betty passed away after 55 years of marriage, he dedicated a park bench to her, taking daisies to her memorial whenever he could. That proved difficult in the winter, when the walkway in the park was often slick with ice and snow.

But one day, that changed, when city workers Jerrod Ebert and Kevin Schultz saw Caldwell parking near the snow bank. "It took us both back a little bit thinking, my gosh, his devotion is that strong that he still comes when he can't make it to the bench even," Ebert told CBS. The two men began going to the park and shoveling the walkway daily, even though no one would be walking on it other than Caldwell. "One day I pulled up there and there's the walk shoveled," Caldwell told CBS. He was so touched, he said, "My knees about buckled on me."

Ebert explained, "We were just doing what we felt was our job. Some intuition, be it divine or otherwise, says this is why you're here — to help one another."

CStone's avatar

Thank you for this TriTorch.

TriTorch's avatar

As the sun turns and makes its lonely way back to us bringing with it all of the radiant warmth of summer, that is a story that takes us to a far icier place...

Or is it?

CStone's avatar
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A far ‘nicer’ place. A place where even city workers were allowed to act on their compassion towards someone.

We are losing that bit of humanity.

Cousin Clem's avatar

Isn't it the earth that is doing the moving around the sun?

TriTorch's avatar

I guess that depends on who you trust...

Susie & Security's avatar

Thank you for sharing this story of love! It's not always easy to put others first, but this is what Christ commands of us. (I'm still a work in progress!)

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another."

John 13:34

M Adams's avatar

Love thy neighbor as thyself💕

TriTorch's avatar

Don't use money to measure wealth

Karmy's avatar

Good morning C&C! It’s especially good to see TriTorch here today! God bless you all.

Cousin Clem's avatar

I was waiting for the usual punchline. It was a real story this time. : )

Words Beyond Me-Janice Powell's avatar

✝️✝️✝️

Give justice to me, O Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity,

And I have trusted in Yahweh; I will not waver.

Test me, O Yahweh, and try me;

Refine my mind and my heart.

For Your lovingkindness is before my eyes,

And I have walked in Your truth.

— Psalm 26:1-3 LSB

✝️✝️✝️

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Well, Hunter may be right that Joe wasn't "part of the Epstein class", but he WAS a puppet President who had used his influence to shakedown Ukraine, with Hunter as his bagman. Hunter should be in prison. Is he still receiving Secret Service protection? The infamous Biden Crime Family refuses to go away, much to the chagrin of the Dems.

SD Scott's avatar

Biden was in office as a senator for decades, and presided over the decline of this nation.

He enabled credit card companies to raise interest rates to ruinous heights, driving many Americans into bankruptcy.

He allowed our jobs to be shipped overseas. Along with many other repellent and treasonous actions.

His age as president does not render him an innocent.

As for the child-sniffing and inappropriate public comments to kids, it’s evident he had his own procurers and didn’t need Epstein.

Dan (100% All in MAGA)'s avatar

A very accurate history of a treasonous despot in power for 50 years who systematically and willfully undermined the American people, and with the help of many other dems and rinos of the uniparty. For their personal gain of money and power. Vote MAGA on everything to restore the country and remove these uniparty vermin.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

That reminds me of how he showed his blatant racism during the confirmation hearing for Justice Thomas.

AM Schimberg's avatar

Our displayed as he complimented Obama as being "clean" and "articulate".

PEL's avatar

He excluded student debt from bankruptcy to please his Delaware bank overlords. Then years later wanted to forgive this same debt to please young voters.

Jane Tracy's avatar

And the Student Debt Forgiveness Program folded!

Roger Beal's avatar

The Biden family refuses to go away, much to the chagrin of America. There, FIFY.

WTPuck's avatar

I don't know. I used to think so, but I have to say I'm enjoying the panic of the dems.

Bleonard3's avatar

They need the money since Joe not getting a post-Presidential gravy train like his predecessors. And no doubt he blames Dems, so if they get hurt the money is icing on that cake.

Carolyn's avatar

I think the Bidens will add to the demise of the uni party people..both dem and rinos..what you sow is what you will also reap...karma is a bitch if you are one...I think it is very appropriate that the bidens are doing their part in that demise, even if they don't see it as such...the Vax suit in DC will open so many doors and suits from that "experiment" onward..it will bring back the other experiments on children, pregnant women, prisoners, the military, and all of us. It will also bring out the fact of the murder of the unborn by the PROCEDURE called abortion, the murder of the "useless" eaters..the elderly and disabled..GOD is fulfilling HIS promises of exposing things done in the dark to the light which is truth. This is a time of revelation..revealing who and what each person and organization/company really is.

Susan Seas's avatar

If I didn’t think the Bidens were around to help End the DemonRat party before, I sure do now!!! 😎

The Great Santini's avatar

God works in mysterious ways.

SD Scott's avatar

It’s their vengeance for being ousted.

dancingtime's avatar

No, re SS protection...Trump took that away long ago, as well as for his sister.

Melissa S's avatar

What I don't get is this maintenance of the delusion that Joe Biden is mentally functioning enough to fight for his legacy. When he ran for president in 2020 it was obvious then to anyone with eyes to see that he was cognitively impaired. Not the sharp politician of decades speaking smooth Democrat talking points. I literally laughed at the pretense back then, thinking even the Democrats had to see it. I was wrong. Most maintained the delusion until that fateful debate. (And even then many did not initially acknowledge Biden's senility.) But once again, the maintenance of the delusion is back. Does Biden even know what is going on?

SD Scott's avatar

He was sharp as a tack.

The Great Santini's avatar

Joe was a charter member of the Epstein class. He just kept it in the family and among friends, so to speak.

Deb's avatar

Oh, the dems do not deserve the any peace in this area! Biden and their ilk should be paraded around every chance available as a reminder of what they did, how their robbed the American people with their shenanigans, and the fact that they were the love child of the Democratic party... until they weren't! The media paraded them around like they were royalty all the while the American people could see otherwise! Innocent Americans were vilified by the regime and the press anytime some disagreed! People were harmed! They need to have to bear the weight of their lies!

Susie & Security's avatar

Dave, Trump announced on March 17, 2025, that the Secret Service protection details for both Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden were terminated effective immediately.

Dave aka Geezermann's avatar

Thank you, I should have recalled that.

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

There were/are so many body doubles of Joe Biden, I think "President Joe Biden" was a fiction from the beginning and all signatures were from the autopen. He was the first non-president in the White House.

Johnny-O's avatar

Yep, Joe and his family were small time actors compared to the vultures currently occupying the WH. They must be jealous.

RunningLogic's avatar

—“I will say it: utilitarianism is an evil, reprehensible ideology that all good people should root out and shun.

Utilitarianism isn’t a neutral “science of compassion.” It’s a license for elites to convert other people’s lives into numbers and then quietly decide which ones are expendable. Once you agree that it’s acceptable to harm a few innocents to buy hypothetical benefits for the many, you haven’t elevated morality— you’ve simply replaced “thou shalt not” with “let’s run the model and see who dies.”

🎯🎯🎯

Jpeach's avatar

The “Lot 100” event has been going on for millennia. From Medicine Men to Fauci. Experiment on the weak and neglected, to gain more power/ wealth.

Tim R's avatar

Exactly. Jeff wrote: "At some point in the recent past, our public health agencies quietly slid from “we are here to protect people” to “we are managing a herd, sorry, a population”". I would say they were never "here to protect people". Its always been herd management.

SD Scott's avatar

Just ask William Jenner of cowpox fame: 300 years of junk medicine wrecking our health.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Never forget Henrietta Lacks . RIP. 🙏

Deb's avatar

The Lot 100 boondoggle should have been the end of this side of the government! The more that is revealed about all the experiments and other atrocities that have been inflicted upon the American people should be shut down ASAP! The fact that there are still vaccines that are being put upon the American people is enough! We have seen how harmful they are and the damage they have done. Our country is at the mercy of the pharmaceutical industry and politicians who are benefiting all at the expense of the vulnerable!!! Criminal!!!!

Barbara ( Portlander😵‍💫)'s avatar

😡💔😡💔😡💔😡💔😡😡😡😡

Renea Buchholz's avatar

The 1940’s MIT human radiation experiment and quaker oatmeal. They gave radioactive oatmeal to boys who lived in a boys home. Tricked them and did not inform parents. All to show how good their oatmeal was?

Susan G's avatar

Fauci experimented with children in government care during the AIDS crisis.

L1's avatar

Yes, the utilitarianism should be rooted out and shunned. But instead, the parents of the kids injured or killed by vaccines are the ones shunned. Doctors have been shaming them for even suggesting a correlation between vaccines and autism for decades. I remember expressing skepticism before a vaccine, only to be told that was a pathetic attempt by parents of autistic kids to find something to blame. Just cruel. They add insult to the injury they inflict.

Marilyn's avatar

This was one of the most difficult sections of C&C to read. Those poor families. Lord have mercy.

The behavior during the plandemic revealed how far down the utilitarianism scale half of the country has slid down. Their rubber stamp of approval that the other half of the country should be subjected to the experimental jab is unbelievable.

John Galt?'s avatar

In addition to "managing" the public herd, it is also very utilitarian to manage the nation's *cognitive* infrastructure. You see, a lot of people believe things, and some of those beliefs run counter to the agenda of the central planner wannabes. The means to manage this infrastructure was on full display during the plandemic. CISA, which was supposed to manage the nation's technology infrastructure, got sucked into managing cognitive infrastructure, too.

Valerie's avatar

Joe Biden also presided over our involvement in massive 'utilitarianism' sacrificing Ukrainians and Gazans for what greater good? It is horrific, really worse than what we accused the Hitler Germans of, I never, silly me, thought we would allow such things, I believed in 'never again'. Now Trump is keeping it going.We all share the karma we and the Israelis are allowing to be created.

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

The only way this experimental horror exists is by throwing ethics and morality out the window. Which is why communism is against human flourishing in its brutal pursuit of equality for the masses yet wealth and luxury for its elite. Treating everything and everyone as a utility, a utilitarian means to an end, removes our humanity and creates a soulless machine world of measurement, of profit and loss, degrading us into meaningless elements, into ones and zeros.

John Wygertz's avatar

Rocket science is hard. Because it's rocket science.

Lynne Morris's avatar

Very true. I thought Musk's response was epic though.

Susie & Security's avatar

Musk showed true integrity and compassion there.

shayne's avatar

The theme today: Democrats eat their own, and it's looking like a feast 🤣😂🤣😂

Lori's avatar

Yes, their own SRA ritual.

Debbie Alton's avatar

"Utilitarianism isn’t a neutral “science of compassion.” It’s a license for elites to convert other people’s lives into numbers and then quietly decide which ones are expendable. Once you agree that it’s acceptable to harm a few innocents to buy hypothetical benefits for the many, you haven’t elevated morality— you’ve simply replaced “thou shalt not” with “let’s run the model and see who dies.”

Jeff - you just described what they did with the covid vaccine. Hundreds of thousands have died (many more to come).

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

Signed, someone who lost their beloved sister to turbo cancer.

Todd's avatar

My grandmother, formerly known as Iron Delores, died some six months after being in the first group of Canuckistani elderly eligible to "receive" the vax. She lived 97 years, still able to drive and care for herself, until she was snuffed.

WTPuck's avatar

All the medical atrocities in US history have come from "government healthcare."

SD Scott's avatar

300 years of utter fraud - starting with William Jenner.

ENCmd's avatar

💔😭 for your loss, mine, our nation’s.

L1's avatar

I’m sorry for your loss. I also lost loved ones. In a way, the Covid shot was even worse because I don’t believe it actually helped anyone.

Suzanne's avatar

My daughter as well, Debbie.

Andrew's avatar

Sorry to hear that Debbie. My sister too.

Navyo Ericsen's avatar

My brother, too.

David Roberts's avatar

Elon has publicly said many of Space X explosions are virtually intentional - pushing the boundaries to see what CAN go wrong, because if it can, it will.

SD Scott's avatar

He does like to play with fire.

WTPuck's avatar

I think he likes to fix problems before they occur in space, possibly with humans aboard.

Uncle Juan's avatar

Good morning everyone!!!

Susan Clack's avatar

Buenos Dias, Tio Juan!! 😇😇😇

Uncle Juan's avatar

Buenas Dias para used…

Como esta?

shayne's avatar

Good morning UJ

NoVA mom's avatar

Happy sunny Friday all! 😇

St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Happy Friday, NoVa!

Mrs. "the Knife"

St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Good morning, Uncle Juan! How is it on your side of the mountains this morning?

Mrs. "the Knife"

Uncle Juan's avatar

Sunny and pleasant at the moment… lots of thunder and lightning last night, but not as bad as was threatened….

St. Alia the Knife's avatar

We were in Wenatchee the last 2 weekends - lovely weather in the mid 80s. My nephew complained about it "being muggy" and I had to laugh, because it didn't feel muggy to me. The boy should visit the Midwest, East Coast, or the South to see what real "muggy" is like. 😂🤣

Mrs. "the Knife"

Don Reed's avatar

05/29/26: You too, sir! And it is a beautiful morning... one less crook in WDC apprehended...

In The News: "Hi, guys! I'm from the CIA. Got any gold bars just lying around that I can put to good use?" (04/21/23: Five NFL players caught violating the rules about gambling, instantly detected and suspended. The CIA --- Criminals Investing In (Off-Book) Assets , supposedly the greatest investigative agency since Napoleon's Fouche & his Paris police, can't keep track of the huge gold bars in their custody.)

--- “Blue Origin Rocket Exploded On The Pad Last Night And Here Is How Bad It Is”

https://artvoice.com/2026/05/29/blue-origin-rocket-exploded-on-the-pad-last-night-and-here-is-how-bad-it-is/

Fortunately, they hadn’t yet loaded any of the gold bars that Rush (great name for a rock band!) was planning to stash on the Moon.

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

I would love to see vaccine stories at least once a week. The Cutter Incident, The Tuskegee Story, Stories from React19, VAERS Reports— all of them. There are several in RFK, Jr’s book, The Real Anthony Fauci, Moth in the Iron Lung, A Shot in the Dark, Dissolving Illusions, attorney Aaron Siri’s book, Vaccines, Amen!, and videos like The Gardisil Girls.

Each of these stories really make people reconsider any trust in our alphabet groups. I like to think that telling them over and over may prevent a SIDS death or a child from autism.

J. Lincoln's avatar

Indeed. Excellent comment.

Arturo A.'s avatar

Jill Biden coming out with this "memoir" that nobody is to actually read. The Bidens must have burned through an awful lot of their grifted wealth, the name one that the Democrats don't want to dredge up. Her statement about concerns Joe had a stroke during the debate - what other horrors and embarrassing claims lurk there? Not good with 2026 election coming up fast.

Democrats quietly come in, buy up the entire stock of books before anyone can actually read them. "Sold" copies brings her to the top of the NY Times bestseller list, she feels better about herself, and keeps the grift going a little longer.

Valoree Dowell's avatar

I had a stroke, survived because the guy sitting next to me knew the signs (I had no clue) and called 911. Immediately. So I always do a PSA when I tell this story. Know the signs FAST: FACE drooping; ARM numb; SPEECH slurred; TELL someone. Don’t wait! Now you know—family, friend, neighbor, lady in the grocery line—act. (Don’t write a book about it!)

Dr Jen | Syringa Wellness's avatar

Maybe MAGA should pre-order and use them at those local GOP silent auctions for fundraising. Or donate them to local libraries. Just to keep the title in circulation.

Lori's avatar

Guess Hunter needs to start painting again right quick to sell his art and bring in some money, that is if anyone would buy from him now.

JW's avatar

Newsome did this also. "Campaign ForDemocracy," spent 1.56 million to purchase 67,000 copies of his memoir....Maybe they are doing the same?

J. Lincoln's avatar

"It Takes A Village" - part two.

St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Good morning, C&C, from the (back to) overcast PNW! Oh well, the sunshine was nice while it lasted. Have a great day and even better weekend!

Mrs. "the Knife"

Lorita's avatar

I bought some calendula plants for cheap and planted them between the rain showers. If it works I can make healing tea from the flowers. Wet and dreary here in Southern Oregon. Love the sun when it comes. Blessings all

Valerie's avatar

Good morning!

shayne's avatar

Morning Mrs. tK

St. Alia the Knife's avatar

Morning, shayne!

Mrs. "the Knife"

David Roberts's avatar

You look at the photos / video of Grinning Biden sitting in the Oval Office w Trump after the election - I guarantee you he voted for Trump over Harris.

Merry McIntyre's avatar

Didn’t Biden don a red baseball cap at the time of the election? I have often wondered if puppet master Obama kept Biden “drugged up” so that Obama could do his dirty work behind the scenes.

Roger Beal's avatar

Jill Biden: She IS 106 years old, isn't she?

And ol' Hooker Hunter: He'd know a thing or two about the "Epstein class".

Jim Gatten's avatar

The Biden family perpetrated a horrible economic fraud on America!

The caused many deaths,failed businesses and an overwhelming distrust of government that hopefully will never be forgotten!

SD Scott's avatar

And not just during 2020-2024.

Debra S Heard's avatar

Nobody talks about the large number of baby orphans that Fauci killed in his early experiments of the aids period. It's documented in Kennedy's book "The Real Anthony Fauci".

Kathryn's avatar

Celia Farber (substack) has.

kittynana's avatar

I disagree, Jeff. They used those clinics BECAUSE the people were poor, black, and uneducated. Notice they didn't try out those 'vaccines' in the DC suburbs. Think the Tuskeegee Syphilis experiment.

Jill Biden is trying to set herself up for plausible deniability. Not going to work. Of all the abusers in his life, she's the most egregious. She wanted that crown so badly she didn't care what it took.

Lori's avatar

And the odd thing is she did not take him to the hospital thinking he had a stroke bc she already knew he had dementia, hence debate to waffle house.

kittynana's avatar

@Lori- well, they DO have good coffee.

mspring's avatar

I kinda think both and. There is definitely a eugenics aspect to the selections, given the times.

J. Lincoln's avatar

Bargain Basement Camilla.